Suspended Chhattisgarh IPS Officer’s Corruption Case: Apex Court Denies Protection to Gurjinder Pal Singh IPS
(Judicial Quest News Network)
The suspended Additional Director General of Police Gurjinder Pal Singh denied any protection from the Apex Court on Monday in a case filed against him under the prevention of Corruption Act for allegation of disproportionate assets.
The bench headed by CJI NV Ramana, Justice Surya Kant, Justice Hima Kohli, while hearing a SLP filed by Gurjinder Pal Singh challenging a order of November 226 by Chhattisgarh High Court refusing to grant him any protection from arrest and stay on the ongoing investigation being conducted by the economic Offences Wing/Anti-Corruption Branch of the State Police.
IN the SLP the state government was represented by Senior Advocate Mukul Rohatgi and Lawyer Sumeet Sodhi. Senior Advocate UR Lalit and Advocate Bansuri Swaraj appeared for the petitioner.
The petitioner prayed for interim relief of protection against the arrest & stay in further proceedings in the quashing petition under Section 482 of Cr.P.C for the impugned FIR in question lodged against him under section 13(3) b and 13(2) of the prevention of Corruption Act.
The relief is being sought for the time during the pendency of the main petition pending before the High Court for quashing of the impugned FIR.
The present SLP has been submitted that concerning one nagrik Nigam Scam popularly known as NAN Scam in the state of Chhattisgarh,
The petitioner was repeatedly forced, as Economic Offences wing/Anti-Corruption Bureau, to proceed against previous Chief Minister and his wife. However, when he showed his disability to it because according to his opinion the material available was not sufficient enough to proceed against him in the form of multiple frivolous preliminary enquiries.
The petitioner has submitted that the respondents did not even seek the mandatory approval from the petitioner’s department which is a compulsory requirement before lodging an enquiry or FIR against any public servant and thereby the respondents thrown away such compliance in anxiety of securing the physical study of petitioner just to harass him.
Earlier the court had in October last year protected Singh in the sedition and extortion case filed against him.
After the completion of the preliminary inquiry on June 29, the State Anti-Corruption Bureau (ACB) and Economic Offences Wing (EOW) had registered an FIR under prevention of Corruption Act.
The petitioner’s house was raided on July 1,2021, by the police and they allegedly found some pieces of papers in a drain behind the house of the petitioner which were later on reconstructed by them into some notes, criticize, statistics report against political party and against few representatives of the various wings of the State.
The contents of the reconstructed documents have been alleged to be illicit vengeance and hatred against the State Government and as a result of which, an FIR against him was registered against him for committing offence under Sections 124A & 153A of IPC.
The petitioner further states that the impugned FIR under section 13(1)(b) and 13(2) of prevention of Corruption Act was itself an unfounded action by the Respondent authorities being lacked with obligatory statutory compliances mentioned under section 17A of the Prevention of Corruption (amendment) Act,
